This ability just came out of nowhere, after a silly and more than a little disturbing spirit journey of oppai that probably was foreshadowed better in the source, but I can’t imagine it being any less weird. Lazy storytelling, which I can only hope was done better in the source. (Well, it didn’t get that far, but he clearly knew it wasn’t going to help.) So well done, horny shounen! As for the apparent heart-communing dream state that he can induce by touching breasts, that’s fourteen kinds of too convenient for me. This was a situation where Issei was unequivocally right to refuse sex. The bad stalkers were funny, of course, but when they got to the love hotel area, and Akeno stayed in otome mode … and Odin shows up. Speaking of enviable things, die Issei! You don’t need me to tell you why a date with Akeno is enviable, unless you’re a monster. I have a feeling that bit of foreshadowing will come back to haunt Issei later on (mark your spoilers, LN readers), and-what’s this? Deredere Koneko-chan? WOOHOO!! *completely forgets what he was talking about* What has me most curious is the curse Loki laid on Issei before he died (or was banished, or whatever happens to gods in this world). That, along with getting to see our heroes put down a chump villain like Loki, was satisfying. Fenrir’s brainwashing, along with a new antagonist in Arthur Pendragon ( Ishikawa Kaito)-is it just me, or are there more King Arthurs in manga and anime than there are in Western fiction? Probably just me-really ups the power of the main antagonists. The fangs of Fenrir can slay gods, and sunder weapons like Thor’s Mjolnir-to say that’s a powerful skill is to underestimate heavily. Only it falling out of his shirt pocket when he was bleeding to death was convenient, and in the grand scheme of things, I can let that slide.Īnother nice bit of sleight of hand was hiding what Vali and crew were actually after. I totally forgot about Ravel’s present, just as Issei had, and unlike other convenient revivals, this one makes a lot of sense-if Ravel is crushing on Issei (she totally is), she’d want to give him something to keep him safe, and the meeting in recent episodes was her first opportunity in a long time. And it did-but, credit where credit is due, I didn’t anticipate how Issei would get a 1UP. I complained last week that showing Issei alive in the preview ruined the suspense. That’s one more for team deredere, and one less troublesome god.
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